I'd hoped to work there after graduation, actually. I know it sounds awful, but it isn't. I've worked in worse environments. I think cattiness is the nature of the hospital. There is a lot of talk about lateral violence and bullying in healthcare, but I don't think anything will ever fully make it go away. I just need to watch what I say from now on, and realize that these people are not my close friends. That's sad. I wonder what makes them tight-lipped about other people, but want to slam my crap all over the place? Like the one time I went out with a couple of girls I work with and, since I never drink liquor, vomited. Big freaking deal; it happens. Being a student, I rarely go out, and I didn't have to work or take care of kids the next day, anyway (they did). But it was headline news that I got tipsy...even though the other girls do it on a regular basis.

I have a lot of experience and am thought of highly by the providers and most of the RNs. I pretty much stay on the straight and narrow, and out of the gossip-mill. And everyone knows that I'm doing well in school and set to graduate soon. Part of me wonders if, just being how some girls are, it's a competitive thing. Because the one who blasted me after that night out is a tech (no degree), isn't in school, and is resentful about her position.